It appears the South African government and Nuclear Industry will stop at nothing to forge ahead with their nuclear energy policy for South Africa.
This nuclear energy debacle has been going on now for over 5 years. During that time hundreds of thousands of man hours worth of valid and scientific public comment opposed to further construction of any nuclear reactors has been submitted at every stage of the processes by individuals, communities and NGO’s. That has all amounted to nothing as all those comments have been totally ignored by a government and nuclear industry whose minds were long made up before they even started. Driving this is a very small group of men who all stand to benefit financially through lucrative deals constructing and operating these reactors but the public, the taxpayers, simply do NOT want these reactors and they are being ignored.
Furthermore the nuclear industry has in recent months, using taxpayers money, run a number of conferences aimed at promoting nuclear energy. The invited speakers are all pro nuclear pundits, the function venues and catering is all paid for by taxpayers but the organisers charge fees for people to come to these meetings which prevents NGO’s attending and it designed to do exactly that. Of the few NGO’s who do manage to scrape up some cash and attend, they only spend the evening being ridiculed by speakers and an audience that is all pro nuclear from the onset. So WHY have conferences promoting nuclear energy to 99% of your audience who is already brainwashed into being pro nuke? It seems media outlets are invited free of charge to these events so that they may of course write favourable nonsense in their newspapers for the nuclear industry.
Just recently one of these conferences was held close to the Atteridgeville community, the media were invited, the nuclear spin doctors were invited, the minister of energy was invited, basically anyone pro-nuclear was invited but the community involved was only told about this the day before and the news of this only reached NGO’s merely a day or two before which once again (by design) makes planning and attending very difficult.
It now also appears that the SABC has been told to clamp down on any news which shows nuclear energy in a bad light, in other words, THE TRUTH and no doubt the men who drive this very secret little industry are extending their reach to other mainstream media too.
It’s clear that these men will stop at nothing because there is a great path to self enrichment if all these very lucrative deals come to fruition. Using taxpayers money to achieve this is nothing short of scandalous if not criminal.
Here’s an article from 2008, nothing up till now has changed except a new “branding” company has been appointed in recent months. What happened to the taxpayers money that was wasted on the previous company who achieved NOTHING?
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Draft IRP2010 Out for Public Comment – Comment Period Closes 10 November – IT IS YOUR TIME TO TALK and say NO TO NUCLEAR !!!
Dear Stakeholder
The Draft IRP2010 has now been developed by the Department of Energy (DOE);
the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) and the System
Operator within Eskom Holdings, in accordance with the Electricity
Regulations on New Generation Capacity, August 2009, promulgated in terms of
the Electricity Regulation Act, 2006 (Act No. 4 of 2006). Following the
publication and broad consultations on the IRP Input Parameters in June
2010, the DOE and its counterparts have spent the past four months
conducting the requisite modeling and scenario analysis towards developing
the Draft IRP2010. The DOE hereby publishes this Draft IRP2010 for public
consultation and comment, for a thirty (30) day period commencing 8 October
2010 and ending on 10 November 2010.
The following documents can be found on the www.doe-irp.co.za website:
1. Draft IRP2010;
2. Executive Summary to the Draft IRP2010;
3. Medium Term Risk Mitigation Plan (as part of the IRP development
process an Executive Medium Term Risk Management Plan was developed to
address the short to medium terms risks of the current electricity supply
shortage. This plan aims to quantify and clarify the nature and the extent
of the short-term supply risks and provide a quantum for immediate
interventions to avoid load shedding); and
4. A prescribed questionnaire template, which you are kindly requested to
use to submit your comments.
You are requested to note the following process going forward:
i Your comments submitted in the format of the prescribed
questionnaire should be emailed to the DOE, Ms Angelique Kilian at
irp2010@mweb.co.za, by close of business on 10 November 2010.
ii Public Hearings on the Draft IRP 2010 will be held in the first
week of November 2010. You will be advised of the precise date/dates in due
course. Should you wish to make a presentation at the Public Hearing,
kindly indicate so to Ms Angelique Kilian at irp2010@mweb.co.za by 18
October 2010 with final submission of presentations on 29 October 2010. (No
update to presentations will be allowed during Public Hearings.)
iii All comments once received, will be logged and duly considered
and the Draft IRP2010 revised as necessary.
iv Given that there is a dire need to make investment decisions
against the IRP2010 this year, the intention is that the revised Draft
IRP2010 will be tabled in Cabinet for approval prior to being published in
the Government Gazette by the Minister of Energy by the end of this year,
for implementation, in accordance with the Electricity Regulations on New
Generation Capacity.
Should you battle to download any of the documentation, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
The DOE wishes to thank you for your interest and participation in this
pivotal instrument to support our long term planning requirements for
electricity supply.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Angelique Kilian
PROJECT MANAGER
Tel: +27 12 444 4369
Cell: +27 72 473 9519
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